djthorpe

Previous discussion about the File System and how it influenced SMB: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23519826

This is my attempt at running Github Actions locally on arm and arm64:

https://github.com/mutablelogic/docker-action-runner

Running the actions in a docker container is not ideal by any means. The authors of Github Actions do not have a stable API between the actions runner and whatever triggers them on their server side; you need to keep the docker container up-to-date every few months, it's not a "fire and forget" thing.

In my vague understanding, there are five parties:

1. The viewer or listener of the music, you might or might not get the right to listen to music in your "territory" or country, and often the music is monetised which means you get ads, or a portion of your subscription revenue is apportioned to the "view";

2. YouTube itself, whom decides on the viewers' right to listen to the music based on their complicated set of algorithms or "claims" on the music track. They also have a complicated database of rights which includes not only rights holder relationships, but the much of the music catalogue itself;

3. A publisher of a piece of music. This copyright is for the composition (sheet music), and often YouTube may be able to work out the publishing right in a territory based on the melody match. So when you say "Content ID algo finds similarity in a dozen different recordings" this is in fact by design. Their melody matching system is in play as often publishers get paid on the composition;

4. The performance copyright of the music. This copyright is for the actual performance - whether it be live, on CD or MP3. Usually this is the record company, they will often upload or provide the music to YouTube and expect to get paid for performances. Content ID will then "claim" any third party copies of the performance and monetize them too (or sometimes block, depending on the territory of viewer, and what the publisher and performance owner wants to do for that territory);

5. Most countries also have music societies who collect on behalf of artists. So GEMA in Germany or PRS in the UK will collect money per view and by some complicated reporting will pay artists directly some small pittance every year if they are lucky. Some countries don't have societies which means YouTube doesn't need to pay. Where YouTube does not have an agreement in a country (less and less now) the music will not be monetized or may be blocked.

There are huge data reports which move around to keep this system going - and the collecting societies themselves work together to ensure that the money for a view of "Never Gonna Give Up" is passed to PRS who then occasionally will pay Rick Astley. It's a nice earner for a minority of musicians to have this income when all the cover versions and MP3 sales have dried up.

YouTube does have a lot of agreements with all the other parties and it's a constant job to renew and renegotiate these contracts constantly. You can see that in the rights notice you mention, this includes all the territories in which there are rights established: it's mind-boggling. No-one wants to lose control of this system and I imagine that makes it brittle and very difficult to disrupt...it's lawyers all the way down.

I hope that is not all too misleading!

Thirteen Lives is now in production with a good cast and Ron Howard as director. Likely to be released around the middle of 2022

Not quite - they would need to determine the relevancy of the news story within clusters of stories as well, so it's likely they would take the whole article in order to feed into the clustering algorithm. The result is that a number of articles are clustered together through that algorithm and displays a link to the story with a snippet to allow the user to determine the relevancy.

I used to use Apollo workstations in the late 1980's (probably around 1988). I used to have a DN3000 on my desk with a massive CRT monitor.

They were pretty heavily used in my company for CAE work, designing printed circuit boards, schematics and later VLSI design. We moved from software called "Racal Redac Visula" to Mentor Graphics at some point.

They were indeed well ahead of their time. I could open a "pad" in the window manager from any machine in the network. The pad was like a infinite text shell, but it was quite elaborate. You could also open up a UNIX shell within the same environment. At the time, I don't think there were many other graphics-rich workstations which were as comprehensive and focussed on computer-aided engineering.

Apollo was acquired by HP after I stopped using them, and ultimately Mentor Graphics software was likely ported to other systems like commodity PC's and Sun Workstations.

OSHPark also allow you to upload Eagle BRD files, but based in the US. I think it's a separate company.

I suppose this is only the first article, but before you commit components to a manufactured board, I recommend you do a schematic layout and then a wire-wrapped or bread-boarded version first. Manufacturing takes time, and can be costly in mostly time if you make a mistake.

I made a few PCB's using http://aisler.net/ which seem fine for prototype manufacturing. They can also make the laser-cut stencil for SMD component mounting. You can upload Eagle BRD files directly (my experience with KiCAD and Fritzing was a lot less than stellar). Cost was around nine euros for three small PCB's and another nine for the stencil and took about a week to be delivered.

In my humble opinion, the home computer market fragmented into business machines (Amstrad's PCW and PC ranges) and gaming. Acorn and Sinclair [bought by Amstrad] failed to come up with the next generation of home computers.

We now have the Raspberry Pi to fill the "home computer" niche but it's a very different proposition to the home computer of the 1980's.

Die-hard Mac Pro user here. I have one "ashtray" at home and one at work. Prefer wired ethernet, wired RAID storage and wired big monitors plus all the ports I need (albeit not super accessible with the new design). I can't imagine how I would do without my desktop computer, I suppose I would need to get an iMac or Mac Mini, but those also seem to be languishing in some small corner cupboard of Cupertino...

I continue to be genuinely enamored with Final Cut Pro, Motion, Logic Pro, Aperture, AirPort Express, Time Capsule, Cinema Display, XServe and the spinny wheel iPod.

Since we're not going back to this golden Apple era anytime soon, it's going to be harder and more stressful to work out how I might achieve the same level of comfort with my technology when it needs replaced. Having to replace my Mac Pro will be one of the harder decisions I have to make.

Android N is coming to the Nexus 6 today or tomorrow!

Speaking of Music Festival crowds, having worked at Love Parade a few years back where there were fatalities due to lack of crowd controls and at Tomorrowland last year, I was really impressed with the Sendrato bracelet that Tomorrowland use (http://sendrato.com/ ) which can be potentially used to determine densities of crowds in a particular area, and allow controls to be put in place before problems arise.

Cyclists have a very different set of motivations when getting from A to B than cars do. Pedestrians also have a different set of motivations for their actions, but you notice it less because they generally have their own space. I don't think any sort of mutual understanding will help the situation much. The only ways to deal with this is to bring motivations in line or separate out the traffic into separate areas, which is how most cities end up dealing with the issue.

Hi, can you confirm that the British Red Cross is a different organization and more transparent? Ideally they should confirm this on their webpage, but they don't.

Oh, I think they are collecting data just like all the other providers mentioned, and they are sometimes sharing it with 3rd parties. Ie, https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2wzmmr/everythi...

I fear we are part of a small self-selecting group that has chosen the convenience to living in densely populated, well connected cities and are relatively well-off. I doubt you'll hear a lot about "peak car" outside these small groups or areas.

For many, I suspect the car represents a great deal of freedom in exactly the same way that not owning a car means to this self-selecting group: making a decent living, access and comfort, etc.

The real aim to force the decline of car use is sustainability, efficiency and equality. It's not going to happen without huge investments and will affect the whole economy negatively for decades, which is why Governments shy away from doing anything very serious about it.

In the meantime, I'm also happy to not own a car, cycle to work, etc. But if I lived outside central London I would get one immediately.

The code is indeed very useful to debug issues. When asked for it by YouTube, please provide the actual text rather than a screenshot...I get sent the screenshot a lot and then I have to use OCR software in order to decode it.

...and it's free. I'm super impressed with Norwegian Airlines.

I'm trying to build a mac GUI server app at the moment for postgresql for a standalone server, like Postgres.app. I should be finished in a couple of months or so and then I will write a GUI client app for Mac and iOS. If you're interested, you can download the source here: https://github.com/djthorpe/postgresql-kit

Live streaming from the IOC on YouTube is only available in 64 countries where there aren't exclusive broadcaster rights. All of those countries are in Africa or Asia, so not available in the US alas.

Yes, the IOC are streaming the whole olympics on YouTube at www.youtube.com/olympic to 64 countries in Asia and Africa, where there aren't exclusive broadcaster arrangements. It's the full 10 feeds of events and 1 news channel - no ads and full events.